In its session on 9 March 2017, the Bundestag approved the draft drawn up by the government of the “Law reforming the law on construction contracts and amending the liability for defects”. This reform law constitutes one of the greatest interventions of the legislator into construction contracts law of the last years. The aim of the…
The (long) five-year warranty period for work on structures also applies in the case of photovoltaic roof systems. The Federal Supreme Court of Justice decided, contrary to the previous case law of the appellate, that also in the case of a roof system added to an existing building, the risk can be equivalent to that involved in…
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